Snowball the tailor: a raven, a dog and a request for absolution
A medieval account follows a tailor’s encounter with a changing spirit and his journey to obtain written absolution.
Insufficient evidence#0195
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The Athenian house in chains: Pliny’s Athenodorus story
A philosopher rents a suspiciously cheap house and follows an apparition to a place where the letter says human remains were discovere…
Insufficient evidence#0193
FRB 121102: locating the galaxy behind brief radio flashes
Repeating radio bursts turned a broad sky direction into an association with a particular small galaxy.
An explanation exists#0191
BLC1: a signal toward Proxima that turned out to be interference
A narrow band, frequency drift and disappearance in comparison observations made the signal interesting. Further tests revealed a diff…
An explanation exists#0189
SGR 1935+2154: a radio flash inside our Galaxy
On 28 April 2020 independent instruments recorded a short radio signal and a high-energy burst from the same direction.
An explanation exists#0187
GRAIL: two controlled impacts and unexpectedly dark traces
After their gravity-mapping mission, Ebb and Flow were directed into the surface. Orbital images revealed small craters with unusual e…
An explanation exists#0185
Chandrayaan-1: how water appeared in lunar soil spectra
Measurements by three spacecraft changed the picture of a dry lunar surface. What did the instruments actually detect?
An explanation exists#0183
The Lorimer burst: milliseconds in an archive, recognized six years later
Parkes recorded the pulse on July 24, 2001; archival analysis discovered it in 2007. It became the first known fast radio burst, altho…
Under review#0181
The first pulsar: Jocelyn Bell's persistence and a pattern in strange pulses
In 1967 Jocelyn Bell noticed an unusual trace in radio records. Follow-up checks revealed repeating celestial pulses and opened the st…
An explanation exists#0179